Words Dept.

A selection of my latest bookmarks. Richard Herring.com: Warming up – Herring responds to out-of-context quotes in Guardian piece. “To have those contentious lines quoted out of context, with absolutely no explanation of what else takes place can have no other effect than to make the casual (and even the quite careful) reader assume that [...]

A selection of my latest bookmarks. You could visit my Tumblelog for more stuff I’ve seen on the web. Bloggers dispute Silvio Berlusconi party pictures – Italian PM allegedly airbrushed into photos of an 18-year-old model's birthday party, although no-one knows why. Jeff Jarvis: I'm not the only doomsayer On newspapers: "The insane response to [...]

A selection of my latest bookmarks. You could visit my Tumblelog for more of this sort of thing. The Apprentice Analysed – Occupational psycholgist offers insight about candidates on the Apprentice eaves.ca: Newspapers’ decline is a sign of democracy, not a symptom of its death MediaGuardian: MEN Media to use ‘skills matrix’ to decide who [...]

A selection of my latest bookmarks. Jeff Jarvis: The foresight of Google – If you can't be bothered reading What Would Google Do? then read this instead Decca Aitkenhead meets Jeremy Paxman – Entertaining interview, even though all the juice is crammed into the last seven paragraphs (so skip to there) Terence Blacker: You don't [...]

A selection of my latest bookmarks. Fry/Ross Twitter love-in Allison Pearson – The world's worst columnist – Tasteful description of cancer victim Jade Goody as looking "like a human sacrifice". ASA confirms that God doesn't exist (kind of) The "Manchester City effect" = £100m for a goalkeeper "Blumenthal-related farking" What All PR People Should Know [...]